Day in Photos: May 21, 2012

Combination photo shows the clock tower (top) following an earthquake on May 20 in Finale Emila. A powerful earthquake shook Italy’s industrial and densely populated northeast early Sunday, killing three people and felling homes and church steeples around the historic city of Ferrara.

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British Prime Minister David Cameron listens as President Obama speaks during the opening session of the heads of state meeting on Afghanistan at the NATO Summit in Chicago.

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Turkish Sultan Kosen, the Guinness World Record holder for tallest living male at 2.51 meters, walks on the field before a baseball game between Industriales and Ciego de Avila in Havana, Cuba.

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Atris Hussein, a Lebanese man suspected of planning a possible bomb attack, arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok. Hussein was arrested in Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi airport earlier this year and led police to a house in a suburb of Bangkok, where 9,656 lbs of urea and 8.1 gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate, a chemical compound, were stored. He has been charged with possession of explosive devices.

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A flower-covered Mini Cooper is pictured during the Chelsea Flower Show in London. The Chelsea Flower Show is the most prestigious of Britain’s flower shows and is held every year in the grounds of the Chelsea Hospital.

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A Lebanese boy stands next to a fire which Sunni Muslim residents of the town of al-Abdeh ignited to block the highway leading to the northern Lebanese area of Akkar after the funeral of Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed in his hometown al-Bireh north of Beirut. Army troops shot dead the Sunni cleric on May 20, when his convoy failed to stop at a checkpoint in north Lebanon, that was set up following a week of intermittent clashes in the northern port of Tripoli between Sunnis hostile to the Syrian regime and Alawites who support President Bashar al-Assad.

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Children watch an annular solar eclipse in Fujisawa, near Tokyo. Millions of Asians watched as a rare “ring of fire” eclipse crossed their skies early Monday. The annular solar eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ring around its edges, was visible to wide areas across the continent Monday morning.

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Supporters of Sri Lanka’s former army chief Sarath Fonseka, light fire crackers celebrating his release from prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka,. Fonseka, who was imprisoned after losing an election to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was released from prison Monday to thousands of cheering supporters.

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A partial solar eclipse as seen during sunrise in the coastal town of Gumaca, Quezon province, southeast of Manila. Thousands turned their eyes to the sky on both sides of the Pacific to gaze excitedly as a partial eclipse occluded the sun at dawn in Asia and at dusk in the western United States. An annular eclipse occurs when the moon passes in front of the sun, but is too far from the Earth to block it out completely, leaving a “ring of fire” visible.

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Mauritanian police officer Momar Oulely, 23, rests in a khaima (traditional Mauritanian tent) before heading to work in the eastern town of Nema.

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An Indian boy plays with a polythene bag during a dust storm in Jammu, India.

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A woman toting an umbrella walks by bronze statues of men playing chess outside the federal courthouse in Washington.

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Men from the Samburu tribe walk to a festival in South Horr, Northern Kenya. The Samburu dwell in an area of roughly 21,000 square kilometres in Kenya which they share with other tribes inclinding the Turkana. The Samburu are part of the Maa speaking people which also includes the Maasai.

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Afghan youth play soccer in the evening in the city of Herat.

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A Filipino fan of pop star Lady Gaga wears eyewear made of pins as he waits outside the concert venue before her performance in suburban Pasay, south of Manila, Philippines.